Epickeenan Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Is it possible, what are the limitations, what would be the benefits. Is it possible to fully open all cells in Skyrim to make one cohesive world. Similar to the Open Cities mod just taking it to it's extreme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McclaudEagle Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 It would be possible, as demonstrated by that video, however, there would be significant drawbacks. The most obvious problem would be all that extra content suddenly rendered all at once. Going through Whiterun with every building as an open 'interior' would cause serious FPS drops. The second problem would be having to do a lot of work to make all the quests, scripts, AI Packages, etc., work with the new open interiors, as many of those are linked to stuff inside actual interior cells. So it is possible, but definitely not worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boombro Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Maybe, but it will case some bugs, some quests will break, weather and lighting mods may case stuff, you may also need to change all npcs data to go to those open houses instead of their base game homes, you will need to add many markers, removes many things from Skyrim.esm, needs a lot of patches with 80% of mods, Since npcs will flee to their homes if a dragon or vampire attacked (with mods.) they will just die, almost all modded vampires would die and never find a safe place, npcs may randomly walk into houses and never leave, fps drops because Skyrim weak engine will try to render all that, also the ck would be slower. Inns, houses, shops and other need keywords and markers to make them work (expect market stalls). And they will need an location interior data for them to work. Benefits?No loading screen. It a good idea, but you found a bad game for it. It time wasting, and sadly not worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goremuffin Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 limitations: you not need to sell your soul to Molag Bal for a computer powerful enough to run all the houses, inns, castles, forts, halls... a couple of houses, no problem.. but more than that??... no on skyrim engine.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlduinWorldEater Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Immersion-breaking issue: you'd experience wagonloads of indoor weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epickeenan Posted November 14, 2014 Author Share Posted November 14, 2014 So it's possible just requires a ridiculous amount of work and the major fps drop is unavoidable because I assume skyrim's engine wouldn't allow the world to load as it comes into view of the player (the way other games make seamless interiors and extreriors possible) instead of loading the whole world at once? If the part about skyrim's engine isn't the case then it becomes interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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